Hmm... I'm not sure why the scripting system is continuously dismissed as a viable solution. Is your answer that it's not viable. Requoting:
I understand there are many other tools for performing this conversion (and > I'm leveraging these tools in other parts of code) but I was hoping to > write this as a fallback for this particular system. - tres.finocchi...@gmail.com On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 3:54 PM Guy Stalnaker <jimmyg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Tres, > > Several perhaps better options are tools intended for command line use: > > https://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php > > Or, for considerably more sophisticated image work (with correspondingly > more detailed and opaque documentation) G'MIC (which also has a builtin > tool for use inside GIMP usually packaged with GIMP): > > https://gmic.eu/download.shtml > > Both of these tools can be scripted. > > Regards. > > Guy Stalnaker > jimmyg...@gmail.com > > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 2:47 PM Tres Finocchiaro via gimp-user-list < > gimp-user-list@gnome.org> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm looking into Gimp as a viable scripting solution for a project however >> most of the scripting references I'm finding are either sparse or dated. >> >> I was wonder if there was a way to utilize Gimp's scripting system to >> convert an SVG to a PNG? >> >> The best resource I've found is here however, attempts to run this on my >> machine are failing using GIMP 2.1.0. >> >> >> http://www.jasonhardin.com/programming/2012/08/23/Gimp-svg-to-png-script/#disqus_thread >> >> The script I'm running: >> gimp -i --batch='(svg-to-raster "src.svg" "dst.png" 72 0 0)' >> --batch='(gimp-quit >> 0)' >> >> Unfortunately it throws the following error: >> batch command experienced an execution error: >> Error: eval: unbound variable: file-svg >> >> I'm using MacOS to write the script, but the target platform is Windows. >> >> I understand there are many other tools for performing this conversion >> (and >> I'm leveraging these tools in other parts of code) but I was hoping to >> write this as a fallback for this particular system. >> >> Best regards, >> >> -Tres >> >> - tres.finocchi...@gmail.com >> _______________________________________________ >> gimp-user-list mailing list >> List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org >> List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list >> List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list >> > _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
